I make home-made large beatle spins with a gold blade, 1/8 oz black jighead and either a black or white curley tail. This lure has caught 100's of pike. Bass and eyes will eat them too. Because they aren't a large bait, I don't catch many over 30", but I am an action pike fishrerman. The single hook works great over cabbage, less hooking vegatation, vs a Mepps or stickbait.

My eldest son has caught quite a few pike on a ThinFin 04 color. The youngest son likes to throw a ThunderStick.

I don't think there is a worst lure. Having confidence and being able to identify good pike habitat makes just about any lure work.

I have both lost and been a witness to many many Husky Jerks being sawed off by these critters. Seems the color is always gold for some reason as well. Besides that, pretty much anything will catch them. I've even caught them on worm and bobber.

i would say i have had the most luck throwing frogs, im primarly a bass fisherman, there has been days where i cant even get a bass to bite cuz these toothy critters attack my frog or buzzbait...my fav being the stanly ribbit, so i decedied i would spend some time targeting pike so then i tried using the larger bull ribbit, but did not have as much sucsess as the standard size frogs ..my 2 cents..

Buzz baits top water stick baits are my favorite went out with two friends for q good 9-10 hours last year while camping I couldn't keep track of how many I caught on buzz baits they had stick baits only had a few follows no hits love the rare occasions I pick the rite lure and show up my buddies

ive found great success using a floating fire tiger rapala, never seems to fail me, once my friend andi were fishing in the boat and i was using a rapala he was using just about everything he had in his tackle box and out of the two days we fished i outfished him with 16 pike to 2, but also have found success in spoons